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You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
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Geraldine:
I'm quite a fuckwit!
Rance:
Pull yourself together. Why have you been certified if you're sane? Even for a madwoman you're unusually dense.
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Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.
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Fay:
Have you known him long?
Hal:
We shared the same cradle.
Fay:
Was that economy or malpractice?
Hal:
We were too young then to practice and economics still defeat us.
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Prentice:
It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.
Match:
Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.
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Truscott (shouting, knocking Hal to the floor): Under any other political system I'd have you on the floor in tears!
Hal (crying): You've got me on the floor in tears!
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On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."
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Mrs Prentice:
You put me in an impossible position.
Nick:
No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.
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Fay:
What will you do when you're old?
Hal:
I shall die.
Fay:
I see you're determined to run the gamut of all experience.
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Joe Orton
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Born:
January 1, 1933
Died:
August 9, 1967
(aged 34)
Bio:
John Kingsley "Joe" Orton was an English playwright and author. His public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three years later.
Known for:
What the Butler Saw
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)
The Ruffian on the Stair
The Visitors
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